Are Harbeth the only warm and euphonic speakers in town ?


I've looked far and wide especially for bookshelf speakers with prominent full mids and a lush sound. So far the only name that comes up is harbeth. Maybe Sonus faber but are there other speakers that have similar tone but are made by a different company?

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For the record 85% of speakers out there even with excellent drivers ,for whatever reason go cheap on the heart of the speaker the Xover that everything goes through , like Solen rated a 7 out of 15 ,even worse Harbeth has used capacitors from Taiwan $3 which are msybe a 6 why ? For mfg feel it’s good enough resistors 50 cents when you have great resistors like The Mundorf Ultra ,or Apath audio 

pat $30: each retail good capacitors $50-150:each ,vs $5

My point is you can buy a very good well engineered speaker and rebuild or have some rebuild it , that will transform the speaker .i just bought a Very good speaker not well advertised here Dynaudio  their contour 3.4. I paid $2200 spent $1600 on the Xover parts ,wiring and WBT connectors ,if you had someone do it $1k labor or less and bests the new $7 k contour 30 with Ease , my point is you can have the detail and natural warmth and detail far better then stock even $25 k Magico s use average at best Mundorf Evo capacitors for example when their supreme line is far better ,for $20-$40 k you should be getting much better  just by rebuilding the Internal Xover ,